Lottie Merchant has a target on her back. Not because she’s the right hand of an authoritarian mayor. Not because she’s an assassin herself. Because she’s a Defect, someone who’s developing powers the city can’t control. Exposed to experimental technology by the very people who are now hunting her, Lottie’s only chance to stop them is to play their game and hide. Hide the changes she’s going through. Hide her motives. Be the good little bitch everyone expects her to be. Except she’s not alone. There’s a whole underground network of people just like her fighting the system from within. But time’s running out, and if Lottie can’t stop the killing, she’ll be next on their hit list.